Motivational Quotes

Past

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

- Goodkin, Robert Jacob

Best Quotes about Past

The beauty of the past is that it is the past. The beauty of the now is to know it. The beauty of the future is to see where one is going.

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

Rich, Adrienne

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.

Hewison, Robert

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

Pound, Ezra

The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

Dunne, Finley Peter

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

Dickson, Paul

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The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Weil, Simone

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To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.

Steiner, George

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The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

Webb, Mary

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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Berger, John

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I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,

Barnard, Charlotte

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You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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If you look back too much, you will soon be headed that way

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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects --making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Sontag, Susan

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Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

Horace

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While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Reagan, Ronald

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The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.

Welch, John

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.

Proust, Marcel

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The rewards in life go to those who are willing to give up the past

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

Givens, Charles J.

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Living in the past has one thing going for it; it's cheaper!

Saying

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Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

Ovid

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Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.

Campolo, Tony

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A lot of people go through life like they are rowing a boat. They look at where they have been (the PAST) rather than where they are going (the FUTURE).

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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

Sandburg, Carl

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Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes.

Bingham, Caleb

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

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If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

Hoban, Russell

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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Fredrich

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It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.

Wright, Charles

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Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.

Eliot, T. S.

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We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

Guare, John

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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The next day is never so good as the day before.

Syrus, Publilius

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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

Benjamin, Walter

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William